Marcel Cellier présente
LA DOINA ROUMAINE avec Gheorghe Zamfir
M. Cellier presents
THE ROMANIAN DOINA with G. Zamfir
disques Festival, 1969, FLDX 544
Marcel Cellier (1925-2013) was an Swiss organist and musicologist who discovered Zamfir in Romania and brought him over to France and Swizerland at the end of the 60s. Here he had the good idea to produce an album made of doinas only. The doina is typical of the whole country but exists also in other areas by other names in the Balkan. Originally sung for a dead person or to express personal sorrow or anger it became a genre in instrumental music.
G. Zamfir has three tracks including one with a female singer. Other famous musicians are present like Dumitru Farcaș on taragot and Efta Botoca on violin. The remaining artists play the cymbalum, the clarinet, the saxophone or the violin. There is one nice example of whistling with cobza backing by Dumitru Capra.
All the recordings were made by M. Cellier in Romania. Texts in French and German.
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